The Jazz have waived forward Kevin Knox, the club officially announced today in a press release. Knox spent a single day on Utah’s roster, having been acquired from Detroit in the Simone Fontecchio trade prior to Thursday’s deadline.
The ninth overall pick in the 2018 draft, Knox has appeared in over 300 regular season NBA games for the Knicks, Hawks, Pistons, and Trail Blazers over the past five-and-a-half seasons. However, his production has been uneven during that time.
In 31 games this season for Detroit, including 11 starts, Knox averaged 7.2 points and 2.4 rebounds in 18.1 minutes per night, submitting a shooting line of .462/.330/.909.
Knox was playing on a one-year, minimum-salary contract with a cap hit of $1,845,593, so that dead money will remain on the Jazz’s books, assuming he goes unclaimed on waivers. Once he becomes a free agent, the 24-year-old will be eligible to sign with any NBA team except the Pistons.
Utah will create an opening on its 15-man roster by waiving Knox. It’s possible the Jazz will end up with another open spot or two in the coming days — it’s unclear what their plans are for the other players they acquired this week, Kira Lewis and Otto Porter.
Charlotte needs to sign Kevin Knox immediately.
Hornets just dumped a bunch of their trash. Why would they want to get more trash? It will take time to fix the mess that MJ left. He was a terrible owner. Made terrible draft picks on longshot players. Passed on Klay, Kawhi, Spider Mitchell, LaVine, etc. Bad signings like Gordon Howard and Nicolas Batum. Paid these two guys almost $300M. Gordon never played more than 48 games in a season. Batum averaged 14.9 ppg and MJ gave him an extension of $120. They waived him after average 3.6 ppg in his final year. Total mess.
Who cares they just got more from that OKC and Dallas trades
Maybe in 5 years the Hornets will be relevant. They need to develop a winning culture. That is something they haven’t had in almost 20 years
Your takes are interesting today.
Nobody needs Kevin Knox. He is a G League-level talent. Unless you mean they need him to tank harder, in which case I agree.
A team like Charlotte that is riddled with injuries and void of talent should absolutely sign Kevin Knox. He had some more than solid efforts with Detroit including an 18-point and a 17-point game. He can do the same things in Charlotte that he was doing in Detroit. Is he a future piece to build around?? No, not at all. But for now, a veteran who is great in the locker room, and can fill out minutes …. He is absolutely a fit.
Charlotte needs a lot more than one role player…
They need a star to build around first…
For right now …. Kevin Knox is a great fit …. He is not a building block for the future. Knox can play the role that PJ Washington was doing off the bench. They are actually good friends. Played freshman year together at Kentucky. Similar skill set. Knox was supposed to be the better pro, but things changed. Maybe Charlotte is what Knox needs. Maybe Charlotte drafts Knox little brother Karter Knox, he is a likely lottery pick in the next two years.
As a Knicks fan, I am smiling.
You are absolutely trippin man. Lol yes Kevin Knox 7.2 ppg on an 8-43 team is exactly what every team needs!
Love to see Otto Porter get released and go back to the Warriors.
They are above that tax apron, don’t think possible
No Porter makes $6m, which is low enough so that teams over the apron can sign him.
Sources say the Jazz are going to help rehab Otto Porter back to full strength. So they’re not going to waive him.
Legend has it, that one guy in here is still somewhere hollering “Trade Wiseman & Hayes for Trent & Temple”
Yelling from across the world. Trade Wiseman and Hayes for Trent and Temple. Trade Wiseman for Victor O!!!
Johnny 5 sad sigh
The amount of lottery picks last 4 or 5 years to be cut and out the league is amazing. The guys who picked them still have jobs.
None of those guys are super stars. Just role players.
Role players stay in the nba. Lottery picks and don’t get a big boy contract. Makes you wonder how some keep their jobs is all’s I’m saying.
NBA teams are getting rid of the lessor players. Not everyone is cut out for the NBA. This happens because players are drafted after one year of college and haven’t matured yet nor developed their basketball skills. Same thing with Killian Hayes.
So Hayes, Bouknight, Langford and Knox are getting another gig in the nba? How many teams Knox been on? These guys are done.
Bouknight will get a 2nd chance from someone
Not for long he won’t. Got let go by Charlotte for crying out loud.
Some of these underachieving players get lucky when some dumb GM thinks he can fix them. It works on occasion, but not often.
Troy Weaver on line one…
that guy. How does he have a job?
Not every player drafted will make it in the NBA. That’s a fact. They’re lucky to have gotten drafted and made millions. If they are smart, they saved their money, so they don’t have to work at McDonald’s in 5 years.
True, I’m just saying it’s alarming how many lottery picks are failing badly.
That’s been the norm since one and done has been a thing.
KEVIN!
This big headed young man just came out way too early. I hope he saved the money, probably be playing overseas.
They get swayed by the money. Many times their college coach recommends to them to stay another year to develop their skills, mature and increase their draft value. Sometimes they listen, but most of the time they don’t. All they see is money. Tim Duncan played all four years, got a degree, drafted #1 by the Spurs, won 5 championships and got elected into the HOF.
I mean, hes made 22 million dollars so far and he’s only 24 years old.
Sports is the only profession where people mock you for making 22M by 24 years old.
That is before taxes and any luxury items. I hope he invested well because that money can go fast still with taxes and mortgage or car bills.
Kevin Knox has more than invested well, and saved his $$$$.
Dad played football at Florida State, and had a cup of coffee in the league. Mom played volleyball at Florida State. He didn’t have to take care of mom and dad with anything. Lil Bro Karter is a likely future lottery pick who is getting paid $500k this year to play for Overtime Elite. Finances are not a problem.
Invested well? He’s 24. Even if he goes to Europe He will make 1.5 a year for the next decade.
Some of these underachieving players get lucky when some dumb GM thinks he can fix them. It works on occasion, but not often.
Troy Weaver on line two…
That’s exactly why you enter the draft and take the money. There’s no guarantee staying in college would improve their profile or that they wouldn’t suffer an injury. Not saying everyone should enter ASAP, but if you’re already projected to be a mid lottery pick or better it probably makes more sense to.
Knox’s basketball career is instructive on the gaps that exist in the scouting of young basketball talent in the US. All profile, no game. The former was enough to make him a HS AA, a UK one and done, the #9 pick in the NBA draft, and an NBA player under contract for 6 full seasons making more than 20 mm in total.
The bizzare part is if he could reverse the aging process and be 16 again, he could enroll in HS, and do the same thing over again, and get the same results.
The NCAA really needs a proper overhaul so that these young basketball players learn how to play NBA basketball…
Not whatever the NCAA feels like calling basketball… Actual NBA basketball…
Until that happens the current trends will continue…
The NCAA is a regulatory body. It’s not charged with teaching college basketball players the NBA game (which, btw, at this point, bears only a slight resemblence to actual basketball). Individual programs can sell themselves as teaching the NBA game if they like (such as UK does). Whether they’re actually good at it is a matter of opinion. But UK alums (not really alums of course) have had a bunch of success in the NBA, so perhaps they are at least pretty good at it. More of it of course is they get droves of NBA level talent coming in each year.
Overall, the development of basketball skills across college programs is down for obvious reasons. Still, it alot of it happens, and that’s impressive in comparison to the dearth of development happening in the NBA itself or in its so-called development league.
“a slight resemblance to actual basketball” – if NBA basketball isn’t actual basketball, what is?
The game played under the name basketball, pretty much everywhere, before David Stern came along and decided that a modified version of the game would be more marketable to the masses.
Somethings closer to actual basketball (than the NBA) would be college basketball and, of course, international basketball (we taught it to the world, but, based on the last FIBA, it appears that now the student has become the teacher).
Perhaps the problem is NBA rule changes that took the Big Man out of the game, and thus a lot of the physical play that goes with it. There was a time that nobody thought high school, or college freshman could transition just because of the physicality alone. No longer is that the case, as you can weigh 150 pounds, and hold up with the lack of anything physical happening.
Sure, I think it started there. But even for perimeter players, the NBA’s “emphasis” on mandating space for them lessens the need for them to develop many perimeter skills (all of them except spot up shooting really), so they don’t care about it that much. Even before NIL, skill development ceased to be a priority in college choice (it was platform). Now of course it’s $$, and, with the portal, its year to year. No program is getting excited about player development in that environment. Lots of things beyond the NBA’s control, sure, but if the NBA rules still tied success to developed skills, skill development would have to slot in there somewhere as a priority. All moot until Silver is gone.
I can’t believe the Jazz traded their 2 role players that are playing well. I mean they have a shot making the play ins or the playoffs if they make a run.
You provided the reason for the trade in your second sentence.
The Jazz have too many young players that need development. They got rid of two older players and another that was inconsistent shooting-wise.
Waiting behind them is a highly athletic, defensive stud, lottery pick and a high scoring G/F. Both have played really well in the G-League.
They also have a G-League guard who just got his third triple double of the season I think they’ll be fine. They’ll just need some time to adjust.
From summer league star to absolute bust. Couldn’t pan out with knicks, hawks, pistons, blazers…
When opportunity Knox, he didn’t answer the door
No relation, but had to ring in. I saw Kevin play at UK and he was nothing special there. He hasn’t developed much in the NBA. I think he’s out of the league unless his agent can pull something off.
There are a number of UK players active in the NBA, but they have had a lot of flameouts. The Harrison brothers come to mind. Doron Lamb. Isaiah Briscoe. Ashton Hagans. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. Skal Labissiere. On and on. Kevin Knox is the latest to flame out.
Then there’s Shai.. wow!